mr.fred wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 20:31 What, have you never heard of shoot and scoot?

I think that qualifies as "taking to the next level"

LOL - just had visions of Harry Secombe meeting Spike Milligan for the first time, after the recoil made his gun jump out of it's firing pit & go for a downhill trundle in the dark. Spike set off to find it. He saw a radio truck, and stuck his head through the curtain Spike: "Anybody seen a...

Yes - people get caught - that was my point. Many don't, as they know how to play the game

NB - not a doctor or surgeon

Now do the same deal for Ukraine!

So you are going to have two ships there when only one is needed? If you want sufficient depth of magazine, and the appropriate technology, it's essential. The USN are already having to re-assess their tactics, because they are having to resort to using SM-2, which is rather overqualified (and expe...

The NHS is one of the most highly audited organisations in the UK Now you are just being ridiculous. Since it seems to miss so much, it can't be that good. As for the substance of what I said, how do you think these cases were known? People in a position to know did blow the whistle. People did get...

However, the presence of vessels using lower-spec missiles against drones & cruise missiles means that the more capable & expensive missiles can be saved for use against ballistic missiles

I would have thought the Falkland & West Indies Guard ships do an important job, replacing escorts in both APT(N) & APT(S). Arguably, there should have been one based in Gib for many years, to perform a similar task in the Med and along the West African coast, again a job that doesn't need a...

pre-pandemic the system was running as lean and as efficient as it could. You are having a laugh, aren't you? My wife used to work in Medical Staffing for our local hospital. They could have halved the staff & not noticed. One refused to answer the phone "because it wasn't in his job descr...

IIRC, it was originally £11.4 billion, then Cameron took £1b out of the budget and the whole plan fell apart, leaving us with £8.4b for eight T26 and £2b for the five T31

To put it in terms that we are familair with, the NHS consumes 12% of GDP.

For the avoidance of doubt, I have no problems with the NHS, I have been a frequent customer over the lastr few years, but I know I live in one of the rare, well-run, NHS regions (and it still has organisational problems)

I thought the problem was that they couldn't be built long enough in that location due to some historically valuable buildings behind. Apologies - I'm not explaining very well. I'm not suggesting extending the original sheds (red outline), but covering the area (yellow outline) currently used for o...

Well, as soon as the "frigate factory" is complete & build moved into that, BAE could build a simple "warehouse" style shed to cover the area where the frigates are currently being assembled & the adjacent disused slipway - that should provide capacity for at least one, a...

Repulse wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 08:03 But no one can explain what priorities you are trying to address?

So you can't define the priorities, but you want to build extremely expensive, dedicated platforms to handle them? Is that what you are saying?

It’s a world away from what people get excited about for a cheap T31 pointless class. I think it's more a case that many of us realised the potential and believed that there was more to be got from the platform. If the current plans come to fruition, then the T31 will be an extremely potent surface...

We do have air defence assets and a fully integrated network. There is anti drone stuf, starstreak, camm, and aster. The real question is how much of it are you prepared to say is to be kept to be deployed around the uk or sent overseas or do we need more of it. We have 6 type 45s are we to say 3 w...

IIRC We ordered a new air-defence radar & computer system for around £800m c. 2 years ago. Seems pointless to know what's coming when you have no method of stopping it. I know that we are joining the European ABM system, but that project appears to be moving with glacial slowness. Perhaps the su...

New Aster 15 EC in 2030, with twice range of the current Aster 15 at 60+km. https://meta-defense.fr/en/2024/04/11/missile-aster-15-ec-mbda-pour-2030/ In-service date 2030 or after Probably a similar time-frame to CAMM-MR (100km+), with CAMM-ER (45km+) in service with Italy in the relatively near fu...

A range of 25km means that CAAMM is capable of defending any ship inside a 2000km2 area around the ship. What is the effective range of a missile is a moving feast as it depends on the target, one extreme short range scenario is the kinetic energy needed to pull 40 Gs (which falls off quickly after...

Odd that you take an article that basically says that ESSM is a self-defence missile that is finding little use in the Red Sea, as it can't intercept missiles aimed at other ships (so the USN has to use SM2 for that purpose) and use that to criticise CAMM, which IS capable of intercepting crossing ...

Navy News 8th April talking to RTX (Raytheon) at SAS '24 on minimal reported use of ESSM by USN ships in Red Sea (only know of Dutch Iver Huitfeldt using ESSM, none by USN). ESSM Block 2’s versatility and role have slated it to be deployed on virtually any Navy vessel. Amid recent events in the Red...

Until they are no longer supported, we should think about retaining Phalanx for use on RFAs & STUFT vessels, alondside the DS30Bs

How to say language teaching in the UK is crap without blaming the teachers and the Dept for Education

Oh dear - resources are resources, whether they are currently being exploited or not. Russia wishes to take control of Ukrainian resources, largely for the personal enrichment of the kleptocracy currently running Russia. The late John McCain who said about Russia "Russia is a gas station masque...

But they are still in the ground they aren't preventing access to any one. The shocks to the economy due to Ukraine have been due to a lack of Russian Gas and Oil not Ukrainian. I suggest you read up on the subject a bit more. Putin and the oligarchs are obsessed with acquiring wealth. The oil, gas...